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CCI Antiracism Leadership Awards

The Community Change Antiracism Leadership Awards Celebration is an event held annually in November. The event grows out of an expansion of the Drylongso Awards Celebration which CCI has hosted since 1989. The first CCI Leadership Awards Celebration was held November 10, 2009.

Leadership Awards honor the work of individuals within three categories, each appropriately recognized with its own award:

DRYLONGSO AWARD

"Ordinary people doing extraordinary work against racism"

Established in 1989, the Drylongso Awards honor ordinary people doing extraordinary anti-racism work in Greater Boston. The Drylongso Awards are inspired by the book Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America. In that book, anthropologist John Langston Gwaltney details the daily struggles of drylongso, or ordinary African Americans fighting racism. [READ MORE]

Begun in 2008, this award recognizes the work of young activists who are living the commitment and demonstrating the energy and passion of CCI founder Horace Seldon. Ancient Egyptians revered the Scarab Beetles for their habit of rolling dung into balls and creating new life as they laid their eggs inside the dung balls. [READ MORE]

In 2009, CCI presented the first CCI Lifetime Achievement Awards. These awards celebrate those who have been and continue to be at the forefront of this work and whose efforts have made significant impact on issues surrounding structural racism. [READ MORE]

Community Change Leadership Awards 2010

About CCI

Community Change was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the Kerner Commission which named racism as "a white problem." CCI has done what few organizations are willing to do: shine a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its source, as well as with its impact on communities of color.